How unreasonable the slavish fear of death, in those who have trusted in Christ! Such as know him not, or are strangers to his grace, may well be afraid of dying. I sometimes wonder, that such are not perpetually overwhelmed with the dread of their dissolution: but their eyes are blinded, and their hearts dreadfully hardened. I hope better things of some of you: that, thoughtful of your latter end, you have been enabled, humbly and thankfully, to embrace the provision made in Jesus, for the salvation even of the chief of sinners: crying out with Paul, “Oh to be found in Christ!” you have fled to him; lived upon him by faith, and it has been your desire and delight, that Christ may be magnified in and by you; both in life and in death.
Stephen Addington — Stephen Addington, The Dying Believer’s Confidence in His Exalted Redeemer: A Sermon Preached at the Meeting in Butt-Lane, Deptford, on Lord’s-Day, October 16, 1785, on Occasion of the Much Lamented Death of the Rev. John Olding (London: A. Rivington and J. Marshall, 1785), pp. 30–31
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